The attack left an estimated 10,000 people homeless. Fire destroyed 1,256 homes and 191 businesses, as well as the community’s churches, junior high school, and hospitals. Thousands of whites rampaged through the black community, killing men and women, burning and looting stores and homes. Some blacks claimed that policemen had joined the mob; others claimed that a machine gun was fired into the black community and a plane dropped sticks of dynamite. [3] In an eyewitness account discovered in 2015, Greenwood attorney Buck Colbert Franklin describes watching a dozen or more airplanes drop burning balls of turpentine on the city’s rooftops. So you tell me what the HELL?. And things haven’t changed. You see this is the history of this country against its own people.

Why is it that crimes committed by African Americans has gone up steadily since the 1960s? If the crime had something to do with slavery and segregation shouldn’t it go down after those things ended? If it was genetic it wouldn’t make sense for the crime to fluctuate like that would it? Is it possible that this rise is because of a change in culture, and values in the African American community?

“Why is it that crimes committed by African Americans has gone up steadily since the 1960s? If the crime had something to do with slavery and segregation shouldn’t it go down after those things ended? If it was genetic it wouldn’t make sense for the crime to fluctuate like that would it? Is it possible that this rise is because of a change in culture, and values in the African American community?”

Your assumption is incorrect. Black violent crime was low for a long time, especially following Abolition of slavery. Then it want up for a time and has been going down since.

One study done on data from rural Louisiana in the decades following Abolition found that black violent crime was almost non-existent while white violent crime was extremely high. Later data in some early 20th century cities showed that various ethnic groups were far more violent than were blacks. Plus, during that era of late 1800s and early 1900s, blacks had high marriage rates, high unemployment rates, and high economic mobility rates.

That changed around the 1960s when the factories left the inner cities just as the black population was becoming majority urban, and then redlining and sundown towns trapped blacks in the inner cities that no longer had enough jobs available. It was simultaneously the beginning of the war on drugs which, of course, was a war on minorities where blacks were arrested and imprisoned more even for drug and gun crimes that whites committed at higher rates. It has been estimated that at least 6% of people in prison are innocent of all crimes, often because of coerced false confessions as prosecutors have great power to threaten people. School-to-prison pipeline and mass incarceration destroyed families and communities.

Rosetta

Imagine: with a wasteland as their canvas, a Master and his young Apprentice set about turning rubble into planets and moons, asteroids and comets. They levitate the worlds above their heads, spinning them in orbit around their symbolic Sun.

“What is the key to life on Earth?” asks the Master.

The Apprentice shakes her head. The answer is obvious: water.

“For a long time, the origins of water, and indeed life on our planet remained an absolute mystery. So we began searching for answers beyond Earth,” the Master continues.

“In time we turned to comets. One trillion celestial balls of dust, ice, complex molecules, left over from the birth of our Solar System. Once thought of as messengers of doom and destruction, and yet so enchanting.

“And we were to catch one: a staggeringly ambitious plan.”

Science fiction? No – science fact.

As Tomek Bagiński’s short film makes clear, it is the essence of what it means to be human, to attempt difficult things, to reach for seemingly impossible goals, to learn, adapt and evolve.

And at the heart of this film is Rosetta, ESA’s real mission to rendezvous with, escort and land on a comet. A mission that began as a dream, but that after decades of planning, construction and flight through the Solar System, has arrived at its goal.

Its aim? To unlock the secrets hidden within the icy treasure chest for 4.6 billion years. To study its make-up and its history. To search for clues as to our own origins.

From 100 km distance, to 50, 30 and then, defying all expectations, to just 10 km, Rosetta continues to captivate and intrigue with every image and every data packet returned.

It will rewrite the textbooks of cometary science.

But there is more, an even greater challenge, another ambitious first: to land on the comet.

The stage is set. The date: 12 November 2014.

“As a science fiction writer, it’s hard to think of a more stirring theme than the origin and ultimate destiny of life in the Universe,” says Alastair Reynolds.

“With the arrival of Rosetta at 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko – an astonishing, audacious technical achievement, literally the stuff of science fiction – we are on the brink of a bold new chapter in our understanding of our place in the Universe.”

“Rosetta is less than 10 km from a comet, and both are racing through space at over 60000 km/h,” says Matt Taylor, ESA’s Rosetta project scientist.

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